Cosh plucks this thought from a fictitious liberal’s mind: “Why would anyone want a McDonald’s parked smackdab in the middle of Prague?”
Exactly! It’s not hard to find cheap food in Prague, even cheap authentic Czech food. What’s missing in domestic cuisine that a foreigner might value is fast and predictable, and McDonald’s does a fine job of providing that.
We actually went to a McDonald’s in Prague (my first time) when we were there last March visiting family. It turns out that food cures morning sickness, and when we got out of the Museum of the City of Prague, my wife was hungry and there was a McDonald’s right across the street.
Most of the clientele were young Czechs, which just goes to show that you can’t keep cheap crappy fast food out of kid’s mouths — not without making it illegal. “You can have my Big Mac when you pry it from my cold, greasy fingers”? Which I suppose goes back to Cosh’s point from the other day.